Getting short of space on a 120G boot/root SSD on Ubuntu Server, decided to replace it with a bigger NVME (IDE) 250G drive.
Using the latest Clonezilla, the process was really painless. After cloning, there was still over 100G unallocated space on the larger drive for expansion of a new parition. The paritions of the clone had the same disk UUIDs and flags as the original.
- Checked disk and partition sizes using
lsblk
. - Downloaded latest Stable iso from https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php.
- Get a 1G or more USB stick and burn the iso onto it using Startup Disk Creator.
- Installed the NVME drive onto the motherboard.
- Started the machine with the Clonezilla boot disk (with my motherboard F12 let me select the boot drive).
- Picked "Clonezilla live (VGA large font & To RAM)" (my monitor was a 7" Uniroi).
- Accepted the defaults for language and keyboard.
- Start_Clonezilla".
- Picked "device-device"
- Beginner
- "disk_to_local_disk" (clone entire disk)
- Picked source disk (in my case /dev/sda).
- Picked target disk (/dev/nvme0n1).
- Skip checking (-sfsck)
- Choose reboot/etc when everything is finished.
- "Enter" to continue.
- Are you sure... ? y
- Are you sure... ? y
- Wait a while.
- "Enter" and then "poweroff".
- Disconnect the original drive.
- Start the machine.